CHEMP News
Media Release: Australian Higher Education Graduation Statements (The Hon Julia Gillard MP, 4 Sept) – “The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced that an Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement will be introduced to make Australian qualifications recognised and renowned throughout the world.” Media Release Project Website
University Consortium Recommends Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement (CHEMP, 15 May) – "A consortium of Australian universities that undertook the Australian Diploma Supplement Project for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has recommended the introduction of an Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement from 2009." Press Release Project Website
Dr Fiona Q. Wood to attend the 20/20Summit - CHEMPs Dr Fiona Wood has been invited to attend the 20/20 Summit to debate and develop long-term options for the nation under the theme of The Productivity Agenda (education, skills, training, science and innovation). The Summit will bring together 1000 of the best and brightest brains from across the country to tackle the long term challenges confronting Australia's future -challenges which require long-term responses from the nation beyond the usual three year electoral cycle. For further information, visit http://www.australia2020.gov.au/about/index.cfm
Staff say uni bosses 'incompetent' (Australian, 19 Mar) – "Almost half of our academics believe their university management is incompetent. That is the sobering picture from a survey of 1200 academics in 21 local institutions for the worldwide Changing Academic Profession study." more CHEMP Project Website
UNE Academic to head L.H. Martin Institute - "Professor Lynn Meek, Director of the University of New England's Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy (CHEMP), has been appointed as the Foundation Director of the University of Melbourne-based L.H. Martin Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Management." more
21 Australian Universities to take part in Global Survey on the Academic Profession, 13 September 2007 - “Is this what you expected academia to be?” This is one of the questions academics across the nation, and the world, will be answering as part of the largest survey ever conducted regarding the academic profession and its ability to contribute to knowledge societies." more
Emeritus Professor Grant Harman, Honorary Fellow, Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM), 22 September 2006 - "Emeritus Professor Grant Harman of the New South Wales Branch has given huge amounts of his time, energy and vision to many events in the ATEM New South Wales Branch calendar over many years, including the Higher Education Updates, the Branch Conferences and the Career Development Days." more
Flexible Professional in the Knolwedge Society - Professor Jean-Jacques Paul recently visited CHEMP for 1 month as part of our Erasmus Mundus Program (a European Commission mobility program). He is the Director of IREDU, a reserach centre specialising in the economics and sociology of education, at the University of Bourgogne/CNRS, Dijon, France. During his stay, Jean-Jacques presented a seminar on the Reflex Project - an EU funded sixth framework project about to be completed on the "Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society". more